Rim-fastening means



v 8.1. FOSTER. RIM FASTEMNG MEANS.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 31,1918

Patent-ed May25,1920.

Fig-M471" hiidxte the accbmpmiyin q dram UNITED swims iwwii HENRY 3' FOSTER, G1? GI'LEWELANID. @1110, ASQIGHUIR [E53 THE PXMJSI fiaTIE-EL GQMPANY, D35. KELEVELANE; UHIG, Jr's, 035 {3111i To all whom it may (707LGHT7L;

B6 it known that I, HENRY J. FOSTER, citizan of the. United States resiriing zit Cleveland, in th county of Cnyahogzi and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful, Improvement in Txim-lFziste/ning Meal'is, of which the followingis 'a fuii, clear, and exactdescriptimi, reifnr sneii being This inveiiiion ffiikbiiQS m Ally in a, one pisce transplii: tire (ta-flying Tiff! and ii; has ffnnits Object in gimviiie av uni/iii means for fastening the ends together in 0min; in H016. them against separation or mow mm when the rim is fastened upnn the Wheei body.

With this abject View the inventii'm consists in the IflUVfii features bi? CODtEiIPHO- tion hereinafter fiiiiy Ciescribnd and painted out in the ciaimm Inthe drawings forming a, pa-i'i iz of this specification Figure 1. is :i View of a iim carrying rim provided 'With my impi'ovnment, the rim being closed; Fig. is i similar View, the rim. iming Opened 01* cm ti-acted; Fig. 3 is an. enlargnii detail View shn'wing' the swig of the rim closed mid ionkeciiogntii I; Fig. 4-. :i simiiar vinw showing the rim ends npeined and the rim contract-ed; and Fig. is a, detail. plain view (if the rim connecting means, the, partsbeing interiocimlji.

Referring to the dmWings A inciicaii-es a tireaarrying rim divided at GHQ; point B,

and this rim may be 0f any type yonci m i To one end nfthe rim is iitsachaii block or lug U, said-lug; be ng; i'lglidljf wnneaieci to the rim and and. 'QYD'EBC EHLg siigiitiy be A lug D is connected to the nppnsite and ofithe-rim, this big being set back a, slight fipecificatiun 0f Letters mm-m.

0pm iiw 1i 4 averse: pins or siqmis of a, min @9833 siting "mini by mminss 0f which tiin mm. is

, lugs L- Fziiiinm iii living iiiiyi ii iin I ip ilimminn film July 31, 19W. Faeiriai i i-oi ti imki if closer to the neuter mi the rim, than the 1mm 01 npenmg; U. Ti'iesie ti'aiisvi'zi'sia is: OI Wei 1) and i)" are intended in i; @DJE opened iii" Bins-mi an (iesirmi.

The i115; m? mmniinr G has a innggun iii PTO- jia ziiiig thereiii'nin Winch adapted to enizni F PFWiill'fiMi in the M3930 i" U5 pitii tinii of him lug i), The i;

it Wiii 0% course b understnmi that the and B with their initeifiocizing p01 Liana withnut ii fifisflliiflg {from the brand ii'incipies 0f thw invention. i isw'ing thus (ins-nailin my W 'HL'iJ ii ciniitii is:

ihnw somb spiii; tire ca invention,

'(m with a 0ne-piece 5min.- in'g min, 01* piatns attached V to the emis of said rim and provided. with.

dyivim 'iiwsi the meeting ends of :iaii piziizes being i3. mi in intni'iniviz.

in tnsibimmiy whweof 1 hni'nunto my signature"),

E and i" can iii-B vai'ii'iusiy infirmd,

has an enisimed. nded hem i ii! innz ihn FLLEGEEKLJ ii cui'iespomiingiy simpefi so than; Wilmi'filiig tnngm is inxiugiii; mm. gageniianb with the Ira-M252 the 'n'iembers U and D will be incimci 'iangetiier anti iiQld against sepsi-mtinn', and namequently inn rim ands am 

